Question for Snape Bashers

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 102401

> Del answers :
> Well, I'm still waiting for someone, *anyone*, to do something 
> about Snape's classes.
> 
> Darrin wrote :
> > And I disagree that D-Dore or others have not "forbidden him." 
> > No one said Snape wasn't clever and capable of being secretive. 
> > And like many abusers, he has instilled such fear in his victims 
> > that they could be afraid to speak out for fear of retribution.
> > 
> > We don't know what D-Dore knows, frankly.
> 
> Del replies :
> We're talking about someone(DD) who knows when Harry leaves his
> dormitory in the middle of the night covered by an Invisibility 
> Cloak. I won't believe that he doesn't know *exactly* what's going 
> on during Potions.


Valky:
I view DD's position here entirely differently. I would be inclined 
to add the consideration of Dumbledore's choice to give Harry to the 
Dursleys as an infant, nevermind the protest of McGonagall that 
there could be no worse place for him into this mix.

Dumbledore's indignance that it would be worse for Harry to be 
subject to the elevated expectations of the WW and the glorification 
or versally the dissappointment that might be consequential of it 
goes a long way to explaining to what end DD would decide it was 
healthy to intervene. 

We know from OOTP that Dumbledore claims also to have placed Harry 
there for the protection afforded to him by the ancient magic that 
Lily had called upon to protect him. This is all Harry knows...

I am finding that Dumbledore believed not just the protection but 
*both* the protection and the anonymity were in his best interests.

At the end of OOTP, during the talk DD confesses that he feels he 
has made many mistakes in the course of trying to alleive Harry's 
suffering in his life and managed to moreso cause it and he 
was "....prouder of you (Harry) than I can say." after Harry's first 
year.

DD was two things when deciding how to act in relation to the way 
Snape treated Harry.
 
ONE he was _OVERWHELMED_ by the responsibility laid on his choices. 
ie "I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands." DD 
in OOTP chapter 37

and TWO he was quietly assuring himself that making fewer choices 
and staying in the background was working for Harry's better 
interests proven by his repeated victories over LV et al in each 
year.